Most extreme form of malnutrition, a consequence of prolonged insufficiency of food

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A physician examining the chest of a thin, perhaps tuberculous, boy, in the presence of the latter's mother. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.

Sick looking men, women and children with the question what does a person with AIDS look like; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

A child with diarrhoea, malnutrition and vector related disease and means of prevention: The Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Kenya. Colour lithograph by P. Wambu, ca. 2000.

A wealthy ignorant doctor recommending expensive foods and cures to a very poor woman for her sick child. Wood engraving.

Prevention and treatment of severe malnutrition in times of disaster : report approved by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Nutrition and presented to the Fourth World Health Assembly.

Hunger : disease of millions / [The British Society for International Health Education ; Susan King-Hall].

Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry / Jean Ziegler ; translated from the French by Christopher Caines.

The long-term effects of the 1958-62 famine on adult mortality in China  / by Yong Li.

Malnourished children of the rural poor : the web of food, health, education, fertility, and agricultural production / Judith B. Balderston, Alan B. Wilson, Maria E. Freire, Mari S. Simonen of the Berkeley Project on Educatioon and Nutrition ; with forewords by Charles S. Benson, Sheldon Margen.

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Starvation

Images from the collections

Images about Starvation

Works from the collections

Prevention and treatment of severe malnutrition in times of disaster : report approved by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Nutrition and presented to the Fourth World Health Assembly.

Hunger : disease of millions / [The British Society for International Health Education ; Susan King-Hall].

Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry / Jean Ziegler ; translated from the French by Christopher Caines.

The long-term effects of the 1958-62 famine on adult mortality in China / by Yong Li.

Malnourished children of the rural poor : the web of food, health, education, fertility, and agricultural production / Judith B. Balderston, Alan B. Wilson, Maria E. Freire, Mari S. Simonen of the Berkeley Project on Educatioon and Nutrition ; with forewords by Charles S. Benson, Sheldon Margen.

Starvation

Images from the collections

Images about Starvation

Works from the collections

Prevention and treatment of severe malnutrition in times of disaster : report approved by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Nutrition and presented to the Fourth World Health Assembly.

Hunger : disease of millions / [The British Society for International Health Education ; Susan King-Hall].

Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry / Jean Ziegler ; translated from the French by Christopher Caines.

The long-term effects of the 1958-62 famine on adult mortality in China / by Yong Li.

Malnourished children of the rural poor : the web of food, health, education, fertility, and agricultural production / Judith B. Balderston, Alan B. Wilson, Maria E. Freire, Mari S. Simonen of the Berkeley Project on Educatioon and Nutrition ; with forewords by Charles S. Benson, Sheldon Margen.

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